Shilpa Agrawal (She/Her)

Shilpa Agrawal is a founding teacher of Comp Sci High, a charter school in the South Bronx. She currently serves as the Director of CS, coaching all the CS teachers in the school and overseeing the 4-year course progression. In her past 7 years at the school she has taught various classes including AP CSA, Software Engineering, AP Calculus, Intro to Physics, and AP Physics 1. Prior to teaching, Agrawal earned her Bachelor’s Degree in CS from MIT, and then worked at Google for 3 years as a Product Manager. She is passionate about teaching CS because the subjects allow students to discover through hands-on problem solving. She aims to help build a field of computing that not only accepts people with different backgrounds, but actively encourages them to bring their full selves to the table.